Geopolitics
Kazakhstan's Political Consolidation: A Test Case for the West's Selective Morality
Kazakhstan is holding a snap parliamentary election engineered to consolidate President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's power and allow him to potentially rule for another seven-year term. This predictable political consolidation in a resource-rich nation, far from representing the will of the people, is a tragic reminder of the West's hypocritical promotion of a 'rules-based order' that selectively ignores such maneuvers by strategically useful regimes.
